UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2008

Montebello, CA, USA

there was a huge rectangular object vertically on top of East Los angeles

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-28
Where
Montebello, CA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.009, -118.105 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-montebello-ca-2008-bf0c43
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Montebello, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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